Check out these two awesome radio rants that were recorded in 2008, when Helen McFadyen visited The Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians’ radio program “An Eye on the North”:
Irked recently received the following one-sentence email from the Wisecracker Grandmaster—the ALWAYS funny, and NEVER dull Mr. Brian Segal:
“Just a thought I had. If there really is life after death then why can’t dead people get life insurance policies?”
Brian Segal is living in the country north of Montréal. He was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis about 18 years ago and, when asked, tells people he is retired (It sounds a lot better than telling people you are on disability insurance). He is happily married, no children, but one very friendly husky cross. He also has the good fortune of living in his own home, not a home.
Quoting from creativemomentum.wordpress.com:
As part of his show, A Bit of What He’s Got, in the 2009 NZ International Comedy Festival, comedian and social entrepreneur Philip Patston has launched the Diverse Perspectives Portrait Project (D3P) to explore the interaction of attitude and perception using portraiture. Unitec Fine Arts students have contributed over a dozen portraits of the gay, disabled comic informed by different attitudes, which will be hung in the foyer of the Herald Theatre…
Reviewer Rachael McKinnon attended Philip Patston’s May 2nd performance in Auckland, and wrote a glowing review for TVNZ. Here are the highlights:
From the moment you walk—or wheel—into the Herald Theatre for Philip Patston’s New Zealand International Comedy Festival Show, “A Bit of What He’s Got,” it is clear that you are not in for an hour of conventional stand-up comedy.
